![]() “The band is it’s own ‘self.’ It has to be that way,” Adebimpe says. The band has also graced the stages of Saturday Night Live and The Colbert Report. Their last album, 2011's Nine Types of Light, was deemed "pure heaven" by the cherubs at Rolling Stone, and earned the band a Grammy® nomination. Their breakout release Dear Science was named best album of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Spin Magazine, The New York Times, The Onion AV Club, MTV, even Entertainment Weekly. Earlier records, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes and Return To Cookie Mountain stole the hearts of fans and critics alike just the same, winning the Shortlist Music Prize and Spin's Album of the Year respectively. Throughout the years, TV on the Radio has been consistent in the standard they set for themselves. They are equal partners in the creation of a type of noise that appeared seemingly out of nowhere over 10 years ago. Most of them can play just about anything. They permeate beyond a wall of sound, and instead create a planetarium of music with every song. To attempt to parse out exactly what each member does in the group would be to dismantle the fundamental essence of what makes TV on the Radio the monolithic anomaly they have been careful to cultivate and protect for more than a decade. “Those were just songs that we wrote because we hadn't written songs together in a while,” says Sitek “They came out really fast and inspired us to do it again – and then ‘again’ turned into the record.”Īdebimpe and Sitek live in Los Angeles, Bunton and Malone reside in New York, but make no mistake: TV on the Radio is a quartet. The band found themselves collected in David Sitek’s Los Angeles studio last year and recorded a couple of songs – “Mercy” and “Million Miles” and didn’t want to stop. They may take time between albums for their other endeavors, but they know when it’s right to come together – especially when the music comes as easily and passionately as it did with case Seeds. The TV on the Radio guys are the type of people who go on hiatus and focus on music. well, let’s say whenever things are going really well, we're like ‘cool, Voltron's back together.’“ Being in a band, at its best times, is like being. Our friendship with each other is so strong. The general feeling going into it was, 'We're still here. “I was so excited by the songs while we were making them, I wanted to get more and more and more into it. “I feel like I knew it before we were done,” he says immediately. Adebimpe has already said this is the band’s best record. They are sounding sharper than ever.” And the band knows it. Slate says Seeds has “TV on the Radio’s best songs in years. They’ve hit a point where they’re OK being straight-up beautiful without having to manipulate prettiness into whatever unforeseen shape. This go-round the songs are immediate and triumphant, textured with storytelling hooks and possibly the most honest music this band has ever composed. This album serves as another step in continuing to heed their reputation as “the most vital, current band in America” (Associated Press). Having long outlasted that early 2000s fascination with all things Brooklyn to which the hip willfully succumbed, they continue to conquer music on their own terms. ![]() It’s no different with Seeds, the new and fifth proper studio album that Adebimpe has made along with Jaleel Bunton, Kyp Malone, and David Andrew Sitek (who also produced it). If we wear our influences on our sleeve, it’s a pretty crowded sleeve.” “I really feel like this band is something that is expansive and always changing and growing. “It’s about doing what feels right,” says singer Tunde Adebimpe. The result is TV on the Radio gets to do anything they want. Like a small platoon whose pleasing impenetrability is their core, the band consistently confounds expectations while managing to balance respect from critics and peers alike. The band's Bio from their website: TV on the Radio gets to do anything. The group has released several EPs including their debut Young Liars (2003), and five studio albums: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (2004), Return to Cookie Mountain (2006), Dear Science (2008), Nine Types of Light (2011), and Seeds (2014).įor most of the band's existence, the core TV on the Radio lineup has been Tunde Adebimpe (vocals/loops), David Andrew Sitek (guitars/keyboards/loops), Kyp Malone (vocals/guitars/bass/loops), Jaleel Bunton (drums/vocals/loops/guitars) and Gerard Smith (bass/keyboards) as official members. TV on the Radio are an American indie rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York.
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